Aerobic Power and Tonic Heart Rate Responses to Psychosocial Stressors

Cox, Jerry P.; Evans, James F.; Jamieson, John

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“…The difference in heart rate recovery seen here replicates previous reports (18,19), which have linked physical fitness with more rapid physiological recovery from psychosocial stress. The Spielberger State findings represent the first demonstration of an altered subjective response to an acute psychosocial stressor in trained versus untrained individuals: pre to post scores were unchanged for untrained subjects whereas scores for trained subjects declined significantly.…”

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“…Studies employing heart rate (18) and skin conductance (19) measures, have found that fitness level did not affect the magnitude of response to a stressor, but was related to more rapid return to baseline following stressor termination. Although consistent with the hypothesis that aerobic fitness influences emotional reactivity, the findings have been limited to a single response modality and thus provide little information on overall reactivity.…”

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Aerobic Fitness Level and Reactivity to Psychosocial Stress: Physiological, Biochemical, and Subjective Measures

Sinyor

Schwartz²,

Péronnet³

et al. 1983

Psychosomatic Medicine

167

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Aerobic fitness is associated with numerous physiological adaptations which permit physical stress to be coped with more efficiently. The present experiment examined whether aerobic fitness influences emotional response. Heart rate, biochemical measures (catecholamines, cortisol, prolactin, lactic acid), and self-reported arousal and anxiety were monitored in 15 highly trained and 15 untrained subjects at various points before, during and following exposure to a series of psychosocial stressors. Heart rate and subjective arousal level increased markedly during the stressors in both groups. Trained subjects showed higher levels of norepinephrine and prolactin early in the stress period, more rapid heart rate recovery following the stressors, and lower levels of anxiety at the conclusion of the session. This more rapid heart rate and subjective recovery from psychosocial stress, suggests that aerobically trained individuals may be capable of faster recovery in both physiological and subjective dimensions of emotionality. The differences in reactivity profiles between the aerobically trained and untrained were discussed in light of models that have dealt with the adaptiveness of emotional response.

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Aerobic Fitness Level and Reactivity to Psychosocial Stress: Physiological, Biochemical, and Subjective Measures

Sinyor

Schwartz²,

Péronnet³

et al. 1983

Psychosomatic Medicine

167

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“…One approach involves monitoring psychophysiologic changes during the performance of contrived psychosocial stressors in the laboratory (6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13). A second approach employs self-report measures of perceived life stress and stress-related symptomatology (14)(15)(16).…”

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“…One set of experiments (7)(8)(9)(10) has found that although trained and untrained individuals do not differ in their psychophysiologic response to laboratory stressors, trained subjects exhibit a faster recovery to baseline following termination of stress.…”

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Experimental manipulation of aerobic fitness and the response to psychosocial stress: heart rate and self-report measures.

Sinyor¹,

Golden²,

Steinert³

et al. 1986

Psychosomatic Medicine

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To determine whether aerobic fitness training alters response to psychosocial stress, 38 males were randomly assigned to either aerobic, anaerobic (weight-lifting), or waiting-list control groups. Experimental groups met three to four times per week in 1-hr sessions aimed at improving either cardiovascular endurance or muscular strength. Aerobic fitness level, heart rate and subjective response to laboratory psychosocial stress, and self-reports of daily stress, coping resources and psychologic symptoms were assessed prior to and following 10 weeks of training. Although posttraining fitness measures confirmed the effectiveness of aerobic training, no group differences were seen on laboratory or self-report measures. However, for aerobic trainers alone, fitness improvement tended to correlate with faster heart rate recovery following psychosocial stress. Fitness improvement was not correlated with any other psychologic changes. This experiment provides only modest support for the hypothesis that aerobic training alters response to psychosocial stress. It is suggested that future work on the psychologic effects of aerobic fitness explore the contribution of training parameters as well as subject characteristics.

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“…Ogsa Dienstbier et al (1981), Cox et al (1979) og Eliot et al (1976) har fra forskellige vinkler demonstreret, at udholdenhedstr~~ening har en fysiologisk effekt, der modarbejder effekten af psykisk (emotionel) stress.…”

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1983

Nordisk Psykologi

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Aerobic Power and Tonic Heart Rate Responses to Psychosocial Stressors

Cited by 69 publications

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Aerobic Fitness Level and Reactivity to Psychosocial Stress: Physiological, Biochemical, and Subjective Measures

Aerobic Fitness Level and Reactivity to Psychosocial Stress: Physiological, Biochemical, and Subjective Measures

Experimental manipulation of aerobic fitness and the response to psychosocial stress: heart rate and self-report measures.

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